China and Saudi Arabia have signed a memorandum of understanding on the construction of a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTR). It was one of 14 agreements and memoranda of understanding signed yesterday during a meeting in Riyadh of Chinese president Xi Jinping and Saudi’s Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz. A demonstration …
The Antipode is the second hypersonic jet by Canadian inventor and engineer, Charles Bombardier. The Antipode design is a 10-seat private jet that uses rocket boosters to take off, detaches the rockets at altitude of 12km, fires its hypersonic engines to hit speeds of Mach 24 (20,000 km/h), and gets you from New York to …
Poland has signed a PLN2.415 billion (USD605.7 million) contract to upgrade its 128 Leopard 2A4 main battle tanks (MBTs) to a new standard called Leopard 2PL. Poland bought 128 Leopard 2A4s from ex-Germany Army stocks in January 2002. They are currently operated by the 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade, based in Swietoszow. All 128 2A4s will …
Laundroid is the world’s first laundry-folding robot. It is made by Japan-based Seven Dreamers. Laundroid is about the size of a refrigerator; you throw your crumpled clothes in a bottom bin like a pull-out freezer, and they’re moved up to shelves neatly folded. The robot uses image-recognition algorithms to tell what kind of clothing it’s …
Bill Gates will announce the creation of a multibillion-dollar clean energy fund on Monday at the opening of a Paris summit meeting intended to forge a global accord to cut planet-warming emissions, according to people with knowledge of the plans. The fund is meant to pay for research and development of new clean-energy technologies. It …
Many night vision systems require cryogenic cooling to filter out background radiation, or “noise,” to create a reliable image. That complicates the design and adds to the cost and the unit’s bulkiness and rigidity. Researchers at MIT, Harvard, Army Research Laboratory, and University of California Riverside, have developed an advanced device by integrating graphene with …
China’s railway authority has proposed a Silk Road high-speed railway connecting the country’s northwest region to West Asia via Central Asia, a plan it said would overcome the cross-border connectivity problem of different rail standards. He Huawu, chief engineer of China Railway Corp, put forward the proposal at a Thursday forum on the One Belt, …
A mach 10 hypersonic Skreemr airplane design is the brainchild of Charles Bombardier. Bombardier’s latest design describes a passenger aircraft that can travel at 10 times the speed of sound, or just under 8,000 mph (12,348 km/h). Charles Bombardier holds a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the École de Technologie Supérieure in Montreal. He …
Scott Lang: My days of breaking into places and stealing stuff are over! What do you need me to do? Hank Pym: …I want you to break into a place and steal some stuff. Scott Lang: …makes sense. In recent decades, China has earned an international reputation in recent decades as being the home of …
AE Systems plc and Reaction Engines Limited (‘Reaction Engines’) announced a strategic investment by BAE Systems and a working collaboration to accelerate Reaction Engines’ development of SABRETM – a new aerospace engine class that combines both jet and rocket technologies with the potential to revolutionise hypersonic flight and the economics of space access. The transaction …
Existing multigrid methods for cloth simulation are based on geometric multigrid. While good results have been reported, geometric methods are problematic for unstructured grids, widely varying material properties, and varying anisotropies, and they often have difficulty handling constraints arising from collisions. This paper applies the algebraic multigrid method known as smoothed aggregation to cloth simulation. …